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U.S. says Syrian offer on chemical site inspection is too late

The United States has little doubt the Syrian government used chemical weapons against civilians last week, and any decision to open the site to U.N. inspectors was “too late to be credible,” a senior official in the U.S. administration said on Sunday.

“Based on the reported number of victims, reported symptoms of those who were killed or injured, witness accounts, and other facts gathered by open sources, the U.S. intelligence community, and international partners, there is very little doubt at this point that a chemical weapon was used by the Syrian regime against civilians in this incident,” the official told Reuters. …

“At this juncture, any belated decision by the regime to grant access to the U.N. team would be considered too late to be credible, including because the evidence available has been significantly corrupted as a result of the regime’s persistent shelling and other intentional actions over the last five days,” the official said.

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I think until such time as we get attacked on our own soil by a true enemy state, that we will never fight a good war again. By good war, I mean one in which we intend to win by what ever means, Fat Boy, necessary to destroy the will to fight of the other side.
My country shames itself daily.

Here is a better question. Why is the problem of the United States of America?

I’m sorry, but no one is paying us for any of this besides the insults, the hate, and the endless attempts to sue us for war crimes.

Why are we acting as world police here when it neither serves our interests OR is a recognized power of our nation?

Back out and let things play out. Dictators will murder the crap out of their people as they were doing before only this time people will see exactly how little their proclamations mean in the absence of US power. Pull back, heat up some popcorn, and enjoy the show.

The french for example said they’d have to go in if there was chemical weapons. Hilarious. So they’d go in like they did in Serbia? Useless f’wits. Let them have a taste of combat for a change. The US has more then had its fill.

There was no way to win the Iraq war without becoming Saddam and raping/torturing/murdering the population into not slaughtering each other. In which case we might as well let Saddam rule the place instead of shedding Western blood and money on that craphole. It shouldn’t have happened to begin with. Neither should Syria.